Photo Credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg It’s a good thing I’m not easily discouraged. In 2009, when I was sowing the seeds for what would become Crowdsourcing Week, a vehicle to enable dialogue and knowledge transfer on the principles of crowdsourcing, I read a...
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This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup January 30
The weekend is finally here! Here’s our weekly dose of the latest updates on - the World Economic Forum meeting, the power of crowdfunding on payment processes and real-estate ventures, why established brands flock to creative crowdsourcing sites, crowdsourcing in the...
2015 Global Crowdsourcing Survey – Our 2nd Annual Pulsecheck
We're back again fielding our seminal research about the crowd economy and all its various component parts - crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and crowd equity, open innovation and collective intelligence, the sharing economy and the peer-to-peer marketplace, online...
Top 9 Advances in Crowdsourced Applications To Watch Out
An edited version of this post first appeared on Virgin. Crowdsourcing in 2014 has experienced tremendous transformations and played a major role in the convergence of technology, business, and disruptive ideas to make the world a global stage of infinite...
Lighthouse to Challenge Kickstarter with Bitcoins
Lighthouse, a new crowdfunding application has gone public. What makes it stand out? Being powered by bitcoins it competes with traditional crowdfunding platforms and stirs up buzz around the value of Bitcoin. Lighthouse is spic-and-span for a number of reasons. It is...
This week in crowdsourcing: news roundup January 23
Here is our weekly roundup of latest updates in collaborative economy and crowdsourcing. Why crowdfunding is good for venture capitalists, what to expect from bitcoins, how to use crowdsourcing for brands and much more in this week’s edition. Sharing Economy &...
Road to Singapore: CSW Summits in Jakarta, Venice, Arctic Circle & Manila
We are taking the high road to Singapore and CSW Global 2015! Shaping up to become the most important international event and meet up on the crowd economy, CSW Global 2015 will touch upon a bold theme that will highlight how the crowd economy can disrupt billion...
Newly Announced Speakers at CSW Global 2015 will Talk Crowd Finance, Crypto 2.0, Creative Crowds and Cloud Computing
Emerging trends in Crowd Finance, Crowdsourced Art, Crypto 2.0 and the Cloud will be talk of the town, April 20-24 at CSW Global 2015 in Singapore. Take a peek below and meet the brains behind the cutting-edge ideas coming to Asia this spring! View full list of...
Predictions on Asia’s Growing Uncollared Workforce
They’re young, tech-savvy, and they embrace a mobile culture. They’re okay with their ‘traveling work spaces’— working cross timezones, anywhere in the world. Their social productivity is innate in the workflow—this new breed of uncollared workforce, mostly comprising...
Civic Crowdfunding Can Revive the Citizens-Politics Relationship
The relation between citizens and representative democracy is in a deep crisis, as indicated by a fall in the number of voters l in many countries all around the world. It's a global phenomenon caused by the wide gap, that is growing every day between...
This Week in Crowdsourcing: News Roundup January 16
Here's a curated, weekly roundup of interesting news on crowd-driven business, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, open innovation and the collaborative economy.Crowd Lab Print ContestThe North Face launched its Crowd Lab Print contest, inviting contributors and enthusiasts...
Local Motors LIVE Prints 3-D Car at Detroit Auto Show
Who says 3-D printing is for furniture or accessory pieces only? Not anymore. Local Motors has gone the extra mile with its first ever 3-D printed car unveiled at Detroit Auto Show on Monday, according to The Washington Post. The Strati roadster design was a...
Uber’s Massive Snowball Effect on the Automotive Sector
Remember the funny snowball effect in cartoons? That puny snowball, rolling on a snow-covered hillside about to smash the perky snowmen along the way? That which kids laugh and watch, rolling on the floor, perhaps trying to understand what’s happening on that episode....
4 Key Issues Facing Sharing Economy in Developing Nations
In the recent years there are some economic and social trends that are aiming at providing alternative and sustainable means of consumption. While Governments and companies around the world, are trying to influence consumer decisions, these disruptive trends...
